SINOPIX PHOTO

Retird in 1997, Yang Tongzai, 67, a former mercury miner in the hole #6 since 1966, poses for pictures inside a mine opening with his 2 grandsons in Man Shan Special Region in Guizhou. Yang lives on his monthly retire pension 960RMB with his family of 6, he got both pneumoconiosis & mercury poisoning diseases (bad teeth) in the early 80s.